Thomas Pirckheimer

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Thomas Pirckheimer (* 1418 ( 1417 ) in Nuremberg ; † 1473 in Regensburg ) was a German lawyer and early humanist.

Thomas was the youngest son of the Nuremberg patrician Franz Pirckheimer, but was the first member of the family to turn to humanism and law. In doing so, he established a family tradition that was to continue right up to its last and most famous representative - Willibald Pirckheimer . That is why it attracted the attention of research early on. He entered the service of the Nuremberg Council and the Bavarian dukes and at the same time pursued an ecclesiastical career, in the course of which he gained high positions in German cathedral chapters and at the Roman Curia. At the height of his career he worked under Pius II for a few months in the papal chancellery. An extensive collection of humanist texts has been preserved in his estate, in which, in addition to Cicero , contemporary authors from Pavia and well-known early humanists such as Guarino da Verona , Leonardo Bruni , Antonio Beccadelli and Poggio Bracciolini are represented.

literature

  • Georg Strack : Thomas Pirckheimer (1418–1473). Scholarly advice and early humanist (= historical studies , volume 496). Matthiesen, Husum 2010, ISBN 978-3-7868-1496-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Reimann: The Elderly Pirckheimer. History of a Nuremberg patrician family in the age of early humanism (until 1501) , Leipzig 1944, pp. 60–103
  2. ^ Georg Strack: Thomas Pirckheimer (1418–1473). Scholarly advice and early humanist , Husum 2010, pp. 54–187
  3. ↑ London, British Library , Codex Arundel 138
  4. ^ Georg Strack: Thomas Pirckheimer (1418–1473). Scholarly advice and early humanist , Husum 2010, pp. 196–234
personal data
SURNAME Pirckheimer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist, lawyer, cathedral chapter
DATE OF BIRTH 1418
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1473
Place of death regensburg